Dam Programming

[2kwik4u]

Doing some programming at work this afternoon. The folks in the office just outside of mine keep wondering why I'm giggling so much.

Too many Dam Jokes!....I had to put a comment inline in the code to remember the giggles the next time I'm working around here.



Link to the video in the comments

I swear, between the dad jokes and the engineer jokes I'm somewhat surprised I have friends at all.

Happy Friday Folks!

 

[Julian]

You should have given them a tour of your dam code.

 

[biglar155]

First, I giggled way too much about this. I find it dam funny.

Second, I'm disturbed but not surprised by the fact that, after the giggling, I proceeded to read/reverse engineer the code to see what it actually does. I couldn't help myself.

Third, I'm blown away by the fact that - as an electrical engineer - with the amount of time I spent in math and physics classes, I never encountered the sagitta of a circle. (Though, apparently spell-check doesn't know what it is either.) I have now educated myself on this matter and for that I thank you.

Finally, I'm fast-forwarding 40 years in my brain. Someone who's a youngster right now is on the brink of retirement. This old-timer is called over by a future youngster (who is trying to fix the function that stopped working with the release of Windows 42 (no one still uses "Math" right?)) and asked "What the heck is this "youtube" thing?

"Well, young lady/fella, let me tell you about a time...."

If this occurs past 1:00 in the afternoon on a Friday, NOTHING is getting done for the rest of the day in that office because Story Time has begun. All because of your one line of documentation. Well done.

 

[2kwik4u]

First, I giggled way too much about this. I find it dam funny.

Second, I'm disturbed but not surprised by the fact that, after the giggling, I proceeded to read/reverse engineer the code to see what it actually does. I couldn't help myself.

Third, I'm blown away by the fact that - as an electrical engineer - with the amount of time I spent in math and physics classes, I never encountered the sagitta of a circle. (Though, apparently spell-check doesn't know what it is either.) I have now educated myself on this matter and for that I thank you.

Finally, I'm fast-forwarding 40 years in my brain. Someone who's a youngster right now is on the brink of retirement. This old-timer is called over by a future youngster (who is trying to fix the function that stopped working with the release of Windows 42 (no one still uses "Math" right?)) and asked "What the heck is this "youtube" thing?

"Well, young lady/fella, let me tell you about a time...."

If this occurs past 1:00 in the afternoon on a Friday, NOTHING is getting done for the rest of the day in that office because Story Time has begun. All because of your one line of documentation. Well done.

Glad you enjoyed it. I literally giggled for the better part of an hour as I was writing/debugging/verifying that little bit of code.

I work for a company that makes large rotary dryers (like cement kiln sized units), and this program designs/costs those for the project engineers. This is one small little segment of the code that does the feed dams that keep the product in the machine at the front.

The sagitta formulation only came to me a few months ago (I'm almost 40 now) as I was working on the stress formulations and found it in the Rourks formulas for an annular ring under a distributed pressure load. I had to google as well, but now use that term as often as possible.........mostly because it sounds neat.

We get into "story time" a few times a month around here. I came from Aerospace which is SIGNIFICANTLY different from large machine manufacturing. So the stories to exchange between the two backgrounds seem to be somewhat limitless.